tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post1765938782015506380..comments2024-03-15T07:36:42.852-04:00Comments on Maxminimus: Madras—ModeratedADGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-19664658768419958252012-05-04T08:00:59.830-04:002012-05-04T08:00:59.830-04:00I still have my 1961 madras raincoat with black ve...I still have my 1961 madras raincoat with black velvet collar. My favorite garment from that era! Purchased at Heery's Clothes Closet in Athens. It is the combination of colors described by Flo. Where can one find any authentic madras? My husband's shirts are dwindling, and I need more. They call seersucker and all sorts of permanent press fabrics "madras". Love your blog, BTW.Clearynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-751607918839607572012-04-19T09:39:38.805-04:002012-04-19T09:39:38.805-04:00Thanks for reminding me...there is a madras dress ...Thanks for reminding me...there is a madras dress I wanted to order!Suburban Princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229769705478339351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-27707540662703005622012-04-19T02:17:24.255-04:002012-04-19T02:17:24.255-04:00I guess I have to make one exception: patchwork qu...I guess I have to make <i>one</i> exception: patchwork quilts.<br /><br />But then again, you don't wear them (except kinda sorta sometimes, maybe when you're sick, or really cold, and even then, only in the house, so they don't really count anyhoo).Youngeth Fogeyethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-76744496390683988192012-04-18T12:27:28.402-04:002012-04-18T12:27:28.402-04:00Flo: This...
..."main color muted navy, seco...Flo: This...<br /><br />..."main color muted navy, secondary color dull medium/light navy, third color some form of muted red, fourth some variant of white/ecru"...<br /><br />Sounds like a big ass bruise--on day eleven of its healing journey.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-39068228428680015482012-04-18T09:44:35.301-04:002012-04-18T09:44:35.301-04:00Max, I heard you unlocked the door, you sure you w...Max, I heard you unlocked the door, you sure you want people like me gettin in here again? Well, in trade for the privilege, you can count on me to summon discipline and restraint, except this one time I feel compelled to speak from the marginalized population of Medicare Madras wearers, you just leapt right over this elite corps without so much as a nod. I happen to be wearing Medicare Madras right this minute, I wear my Medicare Madras every single morning and evening, house pants if you will. Elite Medicare Madras Corps Rule #1: four muted colors, perhaps five, main color muted navy, secondary color dull medium/light navy, third color some form of muted red, fourth some variant of white/ecru. Absolutely no neons, no vivids, no sherbets. Medicare Madras Rule #2: wear with pride, but go no farther than the mailbox.<br /><br />-FloAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-804789613703449862012-04-18T08:57:40.520-04:002012-04-18T08:57:40.520-04:00YogaTeach...let's hope so.
Dave T. I too have...YogaTeach...let's hope so.<br /><br />Dave T. I too have some old old faded patch pants...just now after fifteen years, preening their muted patination. So I'll take it under advisement. <br /><br />Oh, and the Santa...LFG and I now have that Santa at our house--so I can keep an eye on his ass.<br /><br />Jun Luk Retard...I hear you re the idea of a 60's hooded madras break o'the wind. And it seems correct and good...in kind of a Jan Michael Vincent Big Wednesday way. <br /><br />Unfortunately, today's interpretation would net-out as Larry the Cable Guy--Sleeveless Patch Madness Hoodie Thursday.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-29338987398765363842012-04-17T21:55:48.640-04:002012-04-17T21:55:48.640-04:00ADG: Maybe that robe will bleed out a little bit?...ADG: Maybe that robe will bleed out a little bit?<br />Anon Texan: Pink jackets? No wonder no one was in yoga class Monday.yoga teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05551998007150554947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-36273585575506684892012-04-17T17:23:12.884-04:002012-04-17T17:23:12.884-04:00Don't know if I'm on the ban patch bandwa...Don't know if I'm on the ban patch bandwagon as I like my nicely faded patch pants. Maybe tread carefully. The blazer your mother picked out is perfect. <br />Also, I admire your courage at that young age. My family had a Santa like your's, and I avoided him like the plague.Dave Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027056742767537260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-53115818149185543152012-04-17T15:04:00.565-04:002012-04-17T15:04:00.565-04:00ADG, I also have a faint memory of a pullover madr...ADG, I also have a faint memory of a pullover madras windbreaker with a hood, very popular in the early 1960s. Somehow, in those days, there was a strong surfer- madras tie in. You may want to add this to your hoodie post.<br /><br />I have found that wearing madras seems to help people break wind, even today.<br /><br />Jean Luc PetardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-7923436092535324522012-04-17T07:24:19.078-04:002012-04-17T07:24:19.078-04:00LagunaBeachWhitey...now you are lying your ass off...LagunaBeachWhitey...now you are lying your ass off. You don't watch Swamp People. <br /><br />YoungethFogeyeth...I'm kinda opening up to the fact that maybe just PATCH things should be banned for 2012. While I have it and love it, the resistance is starting to make sense. But my paternal grandma used to make quilts and that's a patch item. And I have two of them.<br /><br />AnonOrangePaisley...It's a crazily patterned-colored and texturalated world ain't it?<br /><br />AnonTexan...I hear you on all of what you said. Butcept 'specially on the sore hair.<br /><br />Toad...I may be a decade or so beyond remembering those things but the guy, one of my surrogate fathers, who owned the little trad haberdashery that I worked part time in, remembered ALL the fads and crazes. He'd owned the store since 1947 and regaled us with the stories.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-6319237460954029602012-04-17T01:13:04.259-04:002012-04-17T01:13:04.259-04:00Recently rocked the Madras in s/s sport shirt form...Recently rocked the Madras in s/s sport shirt form. I love Madras and I looove <i>Swamp People</i>. Now that's the <i>real</i> South. ;-)Laguna Beach Fogeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027025872132699493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-91088361304178159732012-04-16T23:08:39.628-04:002012-04-16T23:08:39.628-04:00Picture the Third (3-year-old LFG): cute as the pr...Picture the Third (3-year-old LFG): cute as the proverbial button.<br /><br />Picture the Fourth (patch madras jackets): tools.<br /><br />Bling: inherently BAD (see Paul Fussell).<br /><br />Madras-clad wee ADG: also cute as the proverbial button.<br /><br />Thom Browne: (*shudders*)<br /><br />Patch <i>anything</i>: (*upchucks*)Youngeth Fogeyethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-33315844698166796592012-04-16T19:11:33.912-04:002012-04-16T19:11:33.912-04:00Have ye ever noticed that Paisley, a city in Scotl...Have ye ever noticed that Paisley, a city in Scotland, gives its name to a fabric pattern usually associated with India, while Madras, a city in India, gives its name to a fabric pattern very closely kin to tartan?<br /><br />Park it in the Driveway, or <br />Drive it on the Parkway <br /><br />PS, you know what is great about Orange? You can wear it to the game on Saturday, huntin on Sunday, and to pick up trash by the roadside all week.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-88688411107628489012012-04-16T17:40:31.703-04:002012-04-16T17:40:31.703-04:00Broke out the madras last week in the Astrodome Ci...Broke out the madras last week in the Astrodome City for the tennis tournament. Circa 1978 BB madras trousers, as well as the Jos B patch jacket. Not enuff wear & tear on the jacket to qualify for patina. No Planters Punch, everyone knee deep into the Pink Jacket. Go figure, big dose of sore hair.Anonymous Texanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981903044417463294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-58021875840138325402012-04-16T16:59:22.178-04:002012-04-16T16:59:22.178-04:00You are too young to remember but high styling in ...You are too young to remember but high styling in the mid 60's for school age gents was the JCP special. White band collar, 3 button bleeding madras pullover. High Style for high timesToadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17320342028348619490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-48097514148952191732012-04-16T16:56:12.247-04:002012-04-16T16:56:12.247-04:00Silk Reggie...no doubt I've got some insight r...Silk Reggie...no doubt I've got some insight regarding what would be in store for THAT rig. Somebody's gonna get beat like a borrowed mule. No way 'round it.<br /><br />LimeGreen...oh, of course, I've got all the skinny on that necklace. I'll get back to you on it.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-38356707346939303072012-04-16T14:28:16.447-04:002012-04-16T14:28:16.447-04:00And, pray tell, what is in store for the bloke who...And, pray tell, what is in store for the bloke who ventures out donned in the bleedin'(possibly patch) madras sport jacket, shorts, shirt, tie, (and now I hear Sperrys). btw - the blue/white original madras jacket offered by J. Press was so conservative - one would hardly notice it.<br /><br />Anyway.......Silk Regimentalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08977677279524351735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-58558570835072574382012-04-16T14:10:58.986-04:002012-04-16T14:10:58.986-04:00If you know the lady in aqua flanked by the two da...If you know the lady in aqua flanked by the two dandies each in a killer patch madras jacket, could you tell me the details of the necklace she is wearing?ilovelimegreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13704346108310846391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-30434489663434284392012-04-16T13:11:34.862-04:002012-04-16T13:11:34.862-04:00Scottie...Nantucket Reds are passe man. Passe. It&...Scottie...Nantucket Reds are passe man. Passe. It's Ocala Oranges now. See my tumblr.<br /><br />Leopard...I hear you on the patch stuff versus the old-elegant non-patch thangs. See part two of this post when it hits.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-71407778209080053922012-04-16T12:57:22.416-04:002012-04-16T12:57:22.416-04:00Yesterday, I broke out a madras blazer (NOT of the...Yesterday, I broke out a madras blazer (NOT of the patchwork variety) for the first time this year. There's no reaction you'll receive to a choice of clothing that compares to when wearing madras. For that reason, I'll be wearing my assortment more and more frequently this summer. <br /><br />However, I'm on the verge of a personal ban on "Nantucket" Red. Even though I just picked up new shorts and chinos of the infamous tone, I'm now seeing offerings from the likes of Old Navy, American Eagle and H&M. Ugh. Your thoughts?Scott Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891384177952525852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-5845868256922411652012-04-16T10:51:45.858-04:002012-04-16T10:51:45.858-04:00I am a madras fan, a madman for madras if you will...I am a madras fan, a madman for madras if you will, down here in south Texas you need the cool fabrics to get you through the spring and summer. I have invested heavily in madras through the years, trousers, shorts, bowties, long ties, sport coats, this said I have never owned anything patch madras, I just don't get it, where is all this beautiful fabric they are cutting up to make patch madras clothing from? Because I would like to see some more unadulterated whole madras cloth items available, and yes please bring back more bleeding madras while your there, it was always my favorite.The Leopardnoreply@blogger.com